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Dr Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, a Telugu Brahmin settled in Nagpur.
K.B. Hedgewar was a Telugu Brahmin residing in Nagpur.
Dr. Hedgewar, was a trained medical practitioner, and founded the RSS in 1925
The place was at one time the abode of scholars and prosperous Brahmin families. The Hedgewar family was one such. They were Deshastha Brahmins of the Shakala branch, belonging to the Ashwalayana Sutra of the Rigveda. Their gotra was Kashyapa, and learning and transmission of the Vedas was their sole preoccupation.
As early as 1925 Dr. Hedgewar had founded the RSS to foster Hindutva activism among the Maharashtrian youth. Born into an orthodox Deshastha Brahmin family in Nagpur, Keshavrao Baliram Hedgewar (1889–1940) qualified as a medical doctor but devoted his whole life to the struggle for Indian political freedom.
The organization had been founded and developed by Maharashtrian Brahmins - Hedgewar came from a Telugu Brahmin family long resident in kandakurti currently situated on banks of river godavari at Maharashtra Telangana border near Biloli taluka Biloli Dist. Nanded Maharashtra and Golwalkar was a Karhada Brahmin – and all the early swayamsevaks were Brahmins.
Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, a Telugu Brahmin doctor from Nagpur
Dr Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, a Telugu Brahmin settled in Nagpur.
K.B. Hedgewar was a Telugu Brahmin residing in Nagpur.
Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, a Telugu Brahmin doctor from Nagpur
Dr. Hedgewar, was a trained medical practitioner, and founded the RSS in 1925
The place was at one time the abode of scholars and prosperous Brahmin families. The Hedgewar family was one such. They were Deshastha Brahmins of the Shakala branch, belonging to the Ashwalayana Sutra of the Rigveda. Their gotra was Kashyapa, and learning and transmission of the Vedas was their sole preoccupation.
As early as 1925 Dr. Hedgewar had founded the RSS to foster Hindutva activism among the Maharashtrian youth. Born into an orthodox Deshastha Brahmin family in Nagpur, Keshavrao Baliram Hedgewar (1889–1940) qualified as a medical doctor but devoted his whole life to the struggle for Indian political freedom.